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We are excited to share that Vishal Chauhan, a Doctoral student (D1), recently presented his research at the prestigious Auto-UI 2024 conference. The presentation, titled “Transforming Pedestrian and Autonomous Vehicles Interactions in Shared Spaces: A Think-Tank Study on Exploring Human-Centric Designs,” explored innovative solutions for enhancing pedestrian and autonomous vehicle (AV) interactions using Smart Pole Interaction Units (SPIU) and external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs). The study involved 25 participants who brainstormed design solutions to improve the effectiveness, simplicity, visibility, and clarity of pedestrian-AV interactions. Key findings highlighted the preference for real-time interaction through SPIUs over eHMIs on AVs in various scenarios. However, the combined use of both SPIUs and eHMIs proved crucial for building trust in autonomous decision-making.Read more

Our lab members participated in the ITS World Congress 2024, held from September 16 to 20 at the Dubai World Trade Center. This conference gathers experts from around the world to discuss advancements in intelligent transport systems (ITS). We moderated and presented the session “SIS 38: Rationale and Validation of Cooperative Perception Services for Connected & Automated Vehicles.” The session focused on the limitations of Level 3 and Level 4 automated vehicles, which rely on onboard sensors to detect surroundings. These vehicles struggle to detect objects in blind spots or beyond sensor range. To enhance safety, cooperative perception services using V2X communication were discussed. This technology allows sharing information fromRead more

From August 12 to August 14, 2024, Dr. Alex Orsholits and Tokio Takada, M1, participated in the 2nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom 2024) in Hong Kong. The conference brought together researchers and professionals to share the latest progress in computing, networking, and applications for the Metaverse. It provided a valuable platform for exchanging ideas and exploring future directions in this rapidly evolving field. Dr. Alex Orsholits presented the paper titled PLATONE: An Immersive Geospatial Audio Spatialization Platform, focusing on the integration of spatial audio in urban environments through mixed reality (MR). His research explored the use of city-scale 3D geometry for audio spatializationRead more

We are delighted to announce that Ms. Chi Weiqi, a D1 student from our laboratory, received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award at the 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring) in Singapore. This conference, held from June 24-27, is a major event in wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology, bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to share the latest advancements. Ms. Chi presented her paper titled “V2I Blockage Modeling and Performance Evaluation for Autonomous Driving.” Her research focuses on the challenges in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, particularly in the context of millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology. By using an RSU-assisted system, her study addresses blockages in multi-lane scenariosRead more

The Tsukada Laboratory will exhibit the latest research outcomes from the “Internet of Realities” project at Interop Tokyo 2024, held from June 12 to 14. This year’s exhibition will feature advanced augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, specifically showcasing vision AI co-processing with the Magic Leap 2 headset. This system streams camera data to an edge co-processor for AI model execution, such as object detection and pose estimation, and reprojects the results into the user’s 3D environment. Leveraging advancements in lightweight, untethered spatial computing hardware, this approach aims to enhance real-time computer vision capabilities in mixed-reality environments. Our booth is located at stand number 4B25. There is oneRead more

We are pleased to report on our participation in the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024), held at Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea, from June 2-5, 2024. This prestigious conference, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), brought together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from various sectors to discuss the latest advancements in intelligent vehicles and vehicle-infrastructure cooperation. Our laboratory was represented by Prof. Manabu Tsukada and Dr. Tao Ye presented his paper titled “Zero-Knowledge Proof of Distinct Identity: A Standard-Compatible Sybil-Resistant Pseudonym Extension for C-ITS.” The paper addresses the challenge of Sybil attacks in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) by proposing a novel protocolRead more

Kengo Suzuki (M2) recently participated in the 2nd Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA), held alongside the IEEE INFOCOM 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada. This workshop focused on the transformation of radio access networks (RAN) as we move towards 5G-Advanced and 6G technologies. Topics like the Open RAN movement, open-source software solutions, and AI’s role in network management were highlighted. Kengo presented his research paper titled “Toward B5G/6G Connected Autonomous Vehicles: O-RAN-Driven Millimeter-Wave Beam Management and Handover Management.” His work proposed a novel way to use O-RAN architecture to improve communication for autonomous vehicles, especially in challenging road scenarios. Notably, his presentation won the Best PaperRead more

Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada participated in the 6th International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle 2024) held in Biarritz, France at 15th March 2024. This conference served as a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss the evolving landscape of intelligent vehicular systems and the role of pervasive computing technologies in shaping their future. One of the highlights of the conference was Professor Tsukada’s presentation titled “V2X and Beyond: Integrating Roadside Units for Next-Level Cooperative Automated Driving.” The presentation explored the transformative potential of integrating Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication and Roadside Perception Units (RSPUs) in enhancing autonomous driving capabilities. Through rigorous field tests and simulation experiments, Professor Tsukada showcasedRead more

Associate Professor Tsukada was a panelist at the Enablement for Connected Vehicles workshop at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, held in the heart of Barcelona, Spain. The event, held on the morning of February 28, 2024, brought together luminaries from industry and academia to delve deeply into the progress and challenges of connected vehicles. Enablement for Connected Vehicles Workshop Organized by Networld Europe and CCSA, the workshop aimed to provide an open information space for sharing views on current and future connected vehicles. Issues, technology trends, and standardization were discussed, leading to a comprehensive discussion on the direction of the industry. Associate Professor Tsukada joined the discussion in the sessionsRead more

The ASPIRE (Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem) project, led by Professor Hiroshi Esaki of the University of Tokyo and Professor Tarik Taleb of Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), held its kickoff meeting at RUB from February 29 to March 1, 2024. The meeting brought together researchers from both universities to discuss the project’s goals and objectives, which include developing an open digital infrastructure through the convergence of telecommunications and artificial intelligence (AI). The meeting featured technical discussions, presentations on research activities, and meetings with RUB faculty and leadership. The ASPIRE project is funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and is expected to run for five years.Read more

Author: Alex Orsholits   In the realm of edge AI computing, inferencing performance is constrained by power consumption, heat generation, and total device footprint. Addressing these challenges requires a delicate balance between optimizing for efficiency and maintaining high-performance computation, which is where dedicated hardware shines. With the emergence of co-processing solutions, highly integrated platforms for autonomous driving tasks that make effective use of limited computational resources are slowly but surely becoming reality. RockPi 5B & Hailo-8 Coprocessor In response these considerations, Tsukada laboratory has begun to explore the deployment of Hailo-8 AI coprocessors in conjunction with ARM-based RK3588 single board computers (SBCs) for AI vision offloading. The overall platform leveragesRead more

From December 14th to 15th, 2023, at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Yuze Jiang, an M2 student from our laboratory, was awarded the Best Paper Award (Silver) at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA 2023), despite it being his first participation in an international conference. The award-winning paper proposed a method of using LiDAR-equipped roadside units and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication to accurately estimate the position of connected vehicles and assist them when their self-localization is insufficient. The results of the simulation indicated that this method surpasses the traditional Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) scan matching-based approach in termsRead more

The “NTU-UTokyo Joint Conference 2023” was held on December 7th and 8th, 2023, at the National Taiwan University (NTU) campus in Taipei. This year’s conference theme was “Towards a Sustainable Future: Challenges and Resilience,” and it brought together a total of 300 professors from both the University of Tokyo and NTU. The opening ceremony was conducted by Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo, and Wen-Chang Chen, President of NTU. On the first day of the conference, a welcome luncheon was held at La marée (Shuiyuan Wedding Hall), followed by 18 parallel sessions. Among these sessions, there was one on autonomous driving, focusing on the theme of “Energy-aware collaborativeRead more

On December 5, 2023, the first Internet of Realities Symposium was held at Takeda Hall, University of Tokyo. This event adopted a hybrid format with about 100 attendees on-site and roughly 200 participants online. Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada from the University of Tokyo presented on the Internet of Realities project. Additionally, there were eight poster presentations by lab members involved in the project. The posters included diverse topics such as: “Visualization Techniques Using AR Devices in Cooperative Autonomous Driving” by Hitoshi Nakazato. “Web Digital Twin for BIM Using IFC Model Server” by Satoru Furuta. “Adaptive Algorithm for High-Speed Beam Tracking for Cooperative Autonomous Driving” by Ryo Iwaki. “Toward City-Native MixedRead more

Team TLAB, consisting of Chikara Matsuzawa (1st year master’s student) and Kengo Suzuki (1st year master’s student), won the 2nd place excellence award at the Automated AI Challenge 2023 (Integration) held on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus. Six student teams and 10 adult teams participated in the finals, with Team TLAB coming in first place among students and second place overall, a great accomplishment following their third-place finish in last year’s Automated Driving AI Challenge 2022. In the Automated AI Challenge, students competed to complete challenges using Autoware, an open-source automated driving operating system. In the qualifying round, contestants drove self-driving cars in aRead more

The Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services (WICC-B5GS), organized by Associate Professor Tsukada as one of the workshop organizers, was first held on November 3, 2023 in New York, USA, as a workshop in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) 2023 . The second workshop will be held in Colorado, USA, June 9-13, 2024, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024. The first workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services as part of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) 2023, on November 3 2023, in New York, USA. The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5GRead more

Associate Professor Tsukada has been appointed as a member of the “Study Group on Realization of Safe and Secure Metaverse” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), following on from his appointment in 2022 to the Study Group on Utilization of Metaverse for the Web3 Era. 1 Purpose The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), in anticipation of a significant increase in the market size and number of users of the metaverse in the future, will study principles based on democratic values to realize a safer and more secure metaverse for users, and will also contribute to international discussions on the metaverse, considering that services related toRead more

We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that we’re set to make a significant impact at the upcoming 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023). Five of our research submissions have been accepted for presentation at this prestigious event, taking place from 24th to 28th September in Bilbao, Spain. ITSC, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, is an annual flagship event that brings together scholars, industry experts, and enthusiasts from around the world. The conference serves as a platform for presenting new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment, and case studies in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) domain. EachRead more

Associate Prof. Manabu Tsukada recently participated in the prestigious IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023) held in Kyoto, Japan from June 26-28, 2023. This conference served as a pivotal platform for discussing the integration of physical and cyber worlds, essential for developing the Metaverse. The conference emphasized the transformative potential of the Metaverse in various sectors, including industry, finance, healthcare, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. It highlighted the challenges and opportunities in areas such as human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, resource demands, reliability, and trustworthiness. Prof. Tsukada presented a paper titled “Semantic Digital Twin for interoperability and comprehensive management of data assets.” The paperRead more

June 2024, Pengfei Lin, a D3 student from our laboratory, had the opportunity to present his research at the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2023), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The conference, renowned for gathering experts from academia, industry, and government agencies, focuses on the latest advancements in Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructure, providing a significant platform for sharing new ideas and technological breakthroughs. Pengfei presented his paper titled “Time-to-Collision-Aware Lane-Change Strategy Based on Potential Field and Cubic Polynomial for Autonomous Vehicles.” His research, aiming to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicle lane-changing maneuvers, has shown promising results, reducing the length and curvature of lane change trajectories significantly, ensuring smootherRead more